Literary Translator to Present as 2014 Walton Reader in Translation
Susan Bernofsky
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation will host literary translator Susan Bernofsky as our fall 2014 Walton Reader in Translation at 7 p.m. on Oct. 30, in the Human Environmental Sciences auditorium, HOEC 102.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Bernofsky has translated more than 20 books into English – including seven by Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser – Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and, most recently, The End of Days by German author Jenny Erpenbeck. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, the 2012 Herman Hesse Translation Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN Translation Fund. A former Chair of the Translation Committee of the PEN American Center, she directs the literary translation program at Columbia University.
This reading is made possible by the U of A Fine Arts Activities Fee, the Department of English, and the Walton Family Foundation.
Contacts
Allison Hammond, Assistant Director
Program in Creative Writing & Translation
479-575-4301,
mfa@uark.edu
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